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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1897
Page
3
Local items list jurors, visitors from Pensacola and DeFuniak, and town events. Mentions Davis sale, horse and ox swapping convention, millinery, tobacco ads, and a high school opening with 120 pupils. Also notes illness of J D Forrester and a recently married young man receiving a wedding carriage gift.
Local column highlights include Cottondale and Chipley business seeks, cotton buyers lifting prices, Dekle selling New Home sewing machines on installments, Js. Tarkington chicken farm starting, Hagerman mill oversight, and multiple visits by regional figures. Community updates cover travel plans, residences, barbers and farm prospects with Quarantine impact on mail.
A terse message references an event cycle in October four months ahead, listing conventions conferences and associations and soliciting products. It reads as a personal note seeking offerings for multiple groups though specifics are unclear.
An advertisement touts Winstons Soothing Syrup as a long standing remedy used by millions of mothers. It claims to soothe the child, soften gums, relieve pain, cure wind colic, and cure diarrhea, with immediate relief and global availability. Readers are urged to ask for the syrup by name.
Saview Virginia ad touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with testimonials that it saved children from croup. The notice promotes 26 and 50 cent sizes sold by RK B Bella my and J R Farrior.
A busy month lies ahead as October brings a Teachers' Institute October 1–2, a Horse Swapping Convention October 2, and Masonic, West Florida Baptist Association, and Methodist District Conference gatherings October 7–9 and 15–17. The village expects unusually high activity and attendance.
A list of jurors for the fall term of the county circuit court convening on November 8 includes John Westly W H Ham J T Lassiter A R Perceval J J Nickels Henry Bush A Pippin Clinton Finuff S A Gainer Martin Davis Henry Bell Simeon Strickland Murdock McQuagg J Gainer W P Corbin T E Gainer Henry Anderson F M Swindle T E Langston J H Anderson H E Doxtader W R Miller Neepham Hayes J E Wilcox J R Lassitter E P Maxon John B Elliott W L Hutchinson Henry Hinson.
The Northern Section of the Washington County Teachers Association holds sessions October 1 and 2 with an opening address by Mayor A. D. Carmichael and speakers including L. L. Pratt Prof. Gunnae Nauman Naomi Hadley Mrs Katie Darkhuff J. M. Ripley E Stanton and chairman W. T Horn. The county School Board also meets October 1 and 2 at the same times.
A reader touts Florida swamp land potential in August harvests. I L Whiddon shows three corn stalks with pea vines and long grass, claiming richer yields with cultivation. The note invites interest in starting a lumber and shingle yard locally using the demonstrated crops.
G D Suarp reports lasting relief from Billious colic after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. One dose provides relief when other remedies fail. Sold by R B Bellamy and J R Farrior in Screven County Georgia.
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